BY TAYLOR MARSH
The profile on me in the Washington Post is up (and in the print edition), with lots of color from some of you. It’s interesting how a reporter, after spending a couple of days with you, interprets your feelings and mood. You can never predict what will be on the page. I must say I found the first paragraphs a bit jarring. Hey, but that’s bound to happen when a reporter looks in.
I’ve poured my heart and soul into campaigning for Clinton, as everyone around here knows, working seven days a week, fourteen hours a day. I finally broke even because you value my independent journalism, which covered Clinton fairly long before I backed her, with advertising also coming through. As things got difficult for Clinton, then the math turned impossible, I did become rather Zen about it all. But what I believe has never been a secret. Everyone around here knows my feelings about electing a Democrat in November. It’s job one. I’ve said that loud and clear for weeks. However, when I say I’ll work against John McCain readers have said that means I’ll vote for Barack Obama. So maybe on that I’m splitting reflections. A couple of other things, but when the piece gets rolling it’s good. This section is dead on:
On the night that Clinton won Kentucky and Obama won Oregon, Marshall leaned back on her living room sofa and pressed mute as Obama declared that he had moved a step closer to winning the Democratic nomination. Marshall frowned, took a sip of white wine and let loose.
“If Obama is our nominee, I think he is going to lose Missouri. I think he is going to lose Florida. I think he is going to lose Kentucky,” she said. “Will Obama get the Latino vote in a general election against John McCain? Good luck. And how about women? You’ll never convince me that Hillary Clinton is not the better candidate.”
That still hasn’t changed. “Let loose.” I sure did.
In an Obama-McCain matchup, she said she will use her growing power to make the case to scorned Clinton supporters that voting against John McCain is the way to go.
“I’m still on this road,” Marshall said. “The only party that will do anything to help people where I come from . . . is the Democratic Party.”
On the TV screen, Obama paused from his talk of moving toward victory to praise Hillary Clinton’s “courage, her commitment and her perseverance.”
“He better do this,” Marshall said. “He better do a lot of this.”
That applies double today.
It sure is nice to have a profile in the Washington Post though. It’s been a long road, baby.
Thanks to everyone around here for all of your support. As things got ugly, which started many months ago, it mattered a lot.
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